Re: Connecticut’s Largest Paper Upset That Connecticut Gun Owners Are Ignoring Law

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Originally Posted by Glacier

If you pass laws that treat law-abiding citiizens like criminals... expect them to go ahead and break the laws.

Recent history and trends in this country over the past number of decades has went a long way to prove that the people who crow most about gun laws are in fact people who would be the first to give them up if a "law" is passed and in fact are the most likely to NEVER ACTUALLY USE THEIR FIREARM for anything other than recreation.

One can have all the guns that can be amassed, if they don't have the resolve that their liberty is not to be violated in their gut then those guns will never be used to protect liberty.

The enemy and their minions, the non-White immigrants that flaunt our laws, know that a law is simply a piece of paper, and they have known this for years. The conservative crows about the Constitution as if it is something that protects people from tyranny, only brave men who value liberty, with guns, can protect themselves and the population from tyrants.

Our people are slowly learning this however they still have to find the guts to put knowledge into action - to live one's life truly in the spirit of "give me liberty or give me death", the population must see the worthlessness in a life without liberty, the worthlessness of a life spent watching blacks run up and down fields and courts, of watching inane and degenerate movies, etc, before they will put it all on the line to regain their liberty and reestablish a purpose in life.

Re: Connecticut’s Largest Paper Upset That Connecticut Gun Owners Are Ignoring Law

Something written a while ago that I saw on a firearms forum. Think this guy was pretty spot on, even if writing one's elected officials is pretty much a waste of time, and probably earned him a "visit".

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I am writing you about two bills that have been introduced in the Pennsylvania House and Senate, SB 435 and HB 517, by your fellow legislators. If you are not familiar with these two bills, they are Pennsylvania Assault Weapon bans.

I am not going to cite FBI crime statistics that indicate what type of firearms are used in the vast majority of crimes, studies that have been conducted on how little a gun ban effects violent crime rates, or reference the statistically rare tragedies of mass shootings. I am not going to argue the negligible impact on reduced gun violence such bans have in reality. I am not going to go down the road of arguing against “feel good laws” that are legislative emotional responses to a tragedy.

I am not going to argue about what type of firearm a person should have to defend themselves against a criminal. I am not going to argue about what type of firearm a person uses for sporting purposes such as hunting and recreational shooting. I am not writing you about the merits of “common sense gun reform” or closing supposed loopholes in the law. I’m not here to tell you about the rich Pennsylvania tradition of responsible firearm ownership. I am not going to explain how many Pennsylvanians would be instantly made criminals by the passing of these proposed bills.

There are many residents who are much more qualified than I to do so. I am not a highly educated man. I consider myself an average Pennsylvanian. I am a simple man, working middle class, with a family, and believe in the Rights endowed upon us by our Creator as stated in the Declaration of Independence and ratified by the Constitution of the United States and further by the Bill of Rights.

I am writing you to answer the oft asked question that too many shy from answering.

“What does anybody need with an assault weapon and high capacity magazines?”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and institute a new Government.”

This country was forged by the blood of average men who were willing to die to throw off the shackles of an oppressive government. The first shots in the Revolutionary War were not a direct result of taxation without representation. The battle at Lexington Common occurred when the tyrannical British government tried to disarm the citizens by confiscating their guns and limiting the People’s ability to fight against them.

The Founding Fathers of this nation took great care to ensure that ultimately, the People’s right to defend themselves from tyrannical governments on equal footing, would forever be secured when they purposely scribed these words in the Bill of Rights.

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

The 2nd Amendment is not about hunting. The 2nd Amendment is not about sport shooting. The 2nd Amendment is not about defending oneself against a criminal. The 2nd Amendment is about “the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it (an oppressive and tyrannical government), and institute a new Government”, over which a war was fought, as stated in the Declaration of Independence.

This is a Right, endowed upon us by our Creator, and specifically protected under the Bill of Rights. No man or government has the right to infringe upon the People’s Right to alter or abolish an oppressive government, by force if necessary, on equal footing. Our Founding Fathers recognized this fact, and exercised that very Right to birth our Nation.

This is a harsh and uncomfortable truth that many do not understand, or are willing to discuss.

As my elected official, I want you to consider the words of our Founding Fathers. I want you to think about the context in which they were written. I want you to appreciate and honor the sacrifices our citizens made to break the chains of tyranny. I want you to realize that legislation such as those proposed are in no way different than the British attempting to enact Civilian Disarmament so many years ago. I want you to think about the People’s response to that action.

I want you to emphatically oppose any legislation that infringes and limits the People’s Right to keep and bear Arms.

“Why does anyone need to have an assault weapon?” For the exact same reason that our Founding Fathers needed, utilized, and provided the Right of the People to have them.

Re: Connecticut’s Largest Paper Upset That Connecticut Gun Owners Are Ignoring Law

As a Connecticut state resident, people here are split with gun laws. Certain towns are very pro-gun (smaller conservative-leaning towns in lower fairfield county) and then you get areas like Hartford, Stamford (which is Fairfield county) and New Haven which tend to vote more liberally and democrat and they are awful to live in. I would know being a life-long resident of this state. Dan Malloy (now our governor) was mayor of Stamford for many years and while some of the downtown buildings look nicer, many downtown areas are no-go zones. Supporters of him say the downtown has never been better but try living on Custer or Pulsaski St. for a day. Absolutely terrifying. It has been like that since the 1960's. I know I'm hopping all over the place here but CT is a very divided state in reference to gun laws. I don't pay attention to statistics but don't be surprised about the outcome for gun laws here. After 30 years of living here, nothing surprises me.